yizrahomme
May 7th, 2013, 01:40 PM
Hi,
I have a Toshiba NB200 on which the hard drive is dead. The other week, I went camping with my monstruous Toshiba Satellite whatever, and although it was a great use, the weight put me off.
So I considered buying a new hard drive for the little NB200, and then had the 'bright idea' of using a USB version of Linux. All I want the netbook for is to write a blog, and that can be done in vim, using persistent mode on the USB stick with, say 500 MB reserved for files, right?
I got the i386 ISO of Xubuntu, and used the Universal USB Installer on my office Windows laptop. Creation of the stick went well, and when I boot the aforementioned work laptop off it, it goes to the Ubuntu Live, with the option of 'trying Ubuntu', or 'installing Ubuntu'.
When I try the same boot on my netbook, I get the blue Ubuntu screen for ages, and when I hit ESC, it reveals 'can't umount /cdrom: device busy'.
But there isn't a CDROM drive on that netbook.
Anyone got an idea as to how I can get it to boot off the stick?
Thanks.
I have a Toshiba NB200 on which the hard drive is dead. The other week, I went camping with my monstruous Toshiba Satellite whatever, and although it was a great use, the weight put me off.
So I considered buying a new hard drive for the little NB200, and then had the 'bright idea' of using a USB version of Linux. All I want the netbook for is to write a blog, and that can be done in vim, using persistent mode on the USB stick with, say 500 MB reserved for files, right?
I got the i386 ISO of Xubuntu, and used the Universal USB Installer on my office Windows laptop. Creation of the stick went well, and when I boot the aforementioned work laptop off it, it goes to the Ubuntu Live, with the option of 'trying Ubuntu', or 'installing Ubuntu'.
When I try the same boot on my netbook, I get the blue Ubuntu screen for ages, and when I hit ESC, it reveals 'can't umount /cdrom: device busy'.
But there isn't a CDROM drive on that netbook.
Anyone got an idea as to how I can get it to boot off the stick?
Thanks.